{"id":16599,"date":"2015-04-04T01:41:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16599"},"modified":"2015-04-04T01:41:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T00:41:27","slug":"atman-a-film-by-toshio-matsumoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/04\/atman-a-film-by-toshio-matsumoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Atman, a film by Toshio Matsumoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MdcN8wDxT0Q\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"atman.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/atman.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Atman<\/em> was made four years after <em>Metastasis<\/em> in 1975, and shares similar features: another static object\u2014a woman sitting outdoors wearing a <em>hannya<\/em> demon mask from the Noh theatre\u2014is seen from different angles in a succession of crash zooms and encircling jump cuts. Infra-red film gives the scene its lurid colouring this time; as in as in <em>Metastasis<\/em> the picture occasionally bleaches to white. Toshi Ichiyanagi once again provides an electronic soundtrack. Ten minutes of this makes for a very strange film. Watch it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MdcN8wDxT0Q\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/03\/metastasis-a-film-by-toshio-matsumoto\/\">Metastasis, a film by Toshio Matsumoto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atman was made four years after Metastasis in 1975, and shares similar features: another static object\u2014a woman sitting outdoors wearing a hannya demon mask from the Noh theatre\u2014is seen from different angles in a succession of crash zooms and encircling jump cuts. Infra-red film gives the scene its lurid colouring this time; as in as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/04\/04\/atman-a-film-by-toshio-matsumoto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Atman, a film by Toshio Matsumoto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[7157,7156],"class_list":["post-16599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-toshi-ichiyanagi","tag-toshio-matsumoto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4jJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}